THE PEOPLE'S REVOLUTIONARY CHOIR + The Flowers Of Hell + The Asteroid #4

Fri 25th May 2007

Club AC30 presents
THE PEOPLE'S REVOLUTIONARY CHOIR + The Flowers Of Hell
+ The Asteroid #4

Doors 8.00
£5 via WeGotTickets
£6 door

Formed at the tail end of 2002, The People's Revolutionary Choir have built a stalwart audience by virtue of consistently powerful live shows. Proud to wear their influences openly, their music owes a certain amount to their forebearers; the white-hot noise and repetitiveness of Suicide, the dreamy drones and texture of Spacemen 3 and the sheer forcefulness of The Stooges in their prime are three prominent reference points.

The PRC have enough respect for the aforementioned that claims of totally originality would be inappropriate. That said, to the outside listener, the band's music is so life-affirming that anyone claiming them to be unoriginal or retrogressive would be missing the point.

Main support, The Flowers of Hell, are a London-based collective of musicians who mix guitars, organs, and orchestral instruments while fusing structured songs with soundscapes. Influences range from The Velvet Underground through to Spacemen 3, Beethoven, jazz, ambient sources, and abstract art (in a non-art wanker kind of way). Their recordings and live performances are largely instrumental - and there's a whole music psychology based philosophy behind why there's seldom any lyrics but we won't delve into an essay on neurosciences here!

The Asteroid #4 are from Philadelphia and began in the late 1990s with a series of singles, compilations and a debut full length dubbed 'Introducing the Asteroid No.4'. The album was compared to all things psychedelic from Pink Floyd to early Verve. In 2000, the band began experimenting with a stripped-down aesthetic and explored abandoning what is best associated with their sound; effected guitars.

Looking to the mid-'60s folk-rock and British Invasion artists for inspiration, they began writing the songs that would become the 'Apple Street EP. Following a tour with fellow Philadelphians, The Lilys, they enlisted the greatest retro-revivalist in the land. Lily's front-man, Kurt Healsey, produced the EP and it's corresponding full length, 'King Richard's Collectibles' for their then new label, Rainbow Quartz.

Now, a few years on, the band celebrates their 10th year in existence with a new record. 'An Amazing Dream' was released at the end of 2006. It's said to evoke all of the group's previous recordings, specifically the psychedelic and spacerock ambitions they are best known for. This is number 4 for the number 4 and again, a new course. Only this time it's slightly more familiar.

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